Namaste Now!

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. – Deepak Chopra

opening up
Opening our heart means reaching outwards. Getting out of our heads, dropping down into our hearts, ‘seeing’ the heart of others, allowing love and care to flow from us, to the other. It also means being flexible and open [...]

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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. – Albert Einstein

force is commonplace
The quote seems pretty obvious, but how much do we use or try to use force in our own lives? Here are some ways, can you think of other ways?

How we ram stuff/ideas down our children’s throats
How [...]

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Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do. - Kathleen Winsor

being
Let’s reflect on what’s most important to us. We can do that via Stillness or via an ‘Active’ Journaling technique. A combination of both is more [...]

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You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you. – Yogananda

exemplary living

How do you live a life that dazzles the world?
How can you best use the creativity you were born with? [...]

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When we come to the last moment of this lifetime, and we look back across it, the only thing that’s going to matter is “What was the quality of our love?” – Richard Bach

the being
Love is more in the being first than in the doing. That’s true of life itself. We can be in love [...]

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